FARM Club 2009-2010

FARM Club colleagues-
Jessica and I are taking the reigns for the upcoming year and I'd like to share a few ideas we have for the direction of this club. The biggest is the upcoming Food Animal Symposium that will be here at Valley on October 3. We will be offering CE credit to private practitioners for the one-day event followed by a tri-tip dinner/social and we have already lined up a very interesting speaker schedule. Our goal is to attract a good number of private practitioners and students so that we can interact with our future employers and colleagues. FARM Club has never held a symposium like this, so we hope to set a precedent for those who follow us. There will be a symposium planning meeting TBA before summer, and we will need many hands to contribute to pulling this thing off. If you are interested, please stay tuned.
Also, we would like to encourage you to join us at the AABP Conference in Omaha from September 10-12. I went 2 years ago and it was a great time with many student-oriented events. (UCD was represented by 3 students...all other schools sent about 20). If you are interested in attending, email Jessica. Conference registration is free to student members. We will be doing post-event fund raising (raffle, clothing sales, registration fees) in conjunction with the Symposium to try to reimburse some costs. Also, SCAVMA has the PDF fund to help offset these types of costs. The first week of school is a great week to miss, so consider coming with us.
As far as other ideas for FARM Club next year, we will continue to bring you field trips, seminars, wet-labs, revamped CALF Team, and relevant rounds. We hope to set schedules in advance and update this site with information. We look forward to bringing these new ideas for next year, and hope that you will too. Email us with any suggestions.
-your presidents